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ART 206 Cr.4 Art (ART) - Courses Introduction to Digital Art and Design for Non-Art Majors This is an introductory studio art course surveying the growing field of digital art and design. This class will explore the process of visual Courses expression, communication with attention to aesthetic considerations, +ART 102 Cr.2 and art created using a wide range of digital media. This class will also Art Appreciation introduce digital tools to produce original, creative work. Using creative Discovering the visual world. An introduction to the visual arts of applied software, students will create a diverse array of art and design works, arts, architecture, craft arts, film/video arts, painting/drawing, printing/ spanning digital imaging, compositing, and video editing. As with all graphic arts, and sculpture. The student will learn to use analysis and fine arts studio courses, conceptual creative approach and development evaluation to explore the meaning of art. Offered Fall, Winter, Spring, is prioritized. A basic knowledge of computer use is required. Lect. 2, Summer. Studio 4. Prerequisite: not open to art majors or minors. Offered Fall, Spring. +ART 160 Cr.3 General Art Foundations ART 207 Cr.4 An introductory course in visual art, with emphasis on understanding the Introduction to Digital Art and Design methods of art making in a variety of studio disciplines. Topics include This is an introductory studio art course surveying the growing field of recognition of visual elements and principles of design, methods of digital art and design. The curriculum provides students with a solid applying these elements and principles throughout a variety of art forms, base and an inquisitive edge on which to continue building in advanced thematic development, relationship of the visual arts to other fields of courses in digital media. This class will explore the process of visual human endeavor, and an introduction to writing about visual art. Course expression, communication with attention to aesthetic considerations, content includes representative paradigms of world art, Western art, and art created using a wide range of digital media. This class will also multicultural and contemporary art. Critical thinking is explored through introduce digital tools to produce original, creative work. Using creative responses to the visual arts through active involvement with various software, students will create a diverse array of art and design works, creative processes and media. Offered Fall, Spring. spanning digital imaging, compositing, and video editing. As with all fine arts studio courses, conceptual creative approach and development ART 162 Cr.4 is prioritized. A basic knowledge of computer use is required. Lect. 2, Drawing Foundations Studio 4. Offered Fall, Spring. Drawing foundations introduces the student to a studio-based approach to the visual arts. Students in this course will learn to use and explore ART 212 Cr.4 the descriptive and expressive characteristics of various drawing Sculpture for Non-Art Majors media. Students will also use close observation and analysis of visual This course is a studio-based introduction to materials, methods, and experience. The course is primarily a study of perceptual observation, concepts used in the creation of sculptural art and three-dimensional the materials and methods of drawing being the vehicle for investigation design. Students will engage in a variety of assignments and exercises and interpretation. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Offered Fall, Spring. designed to develop and enhance visual awareness, creative thinking, personal expression and technical refinement. In addition to creative +ART 172 Cr.3 projects and studio work, students will analyze and think critically about Photography Survey basic visual concepts as they apply to developments in historical and This course is a thematic examination of photography as a contemporary sculpture and participate in supplemental writing, group contemporary art form. Through lectures, films, hands on assignments discussion, and class critiques. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: not open and discussions, students will learn important conceptual and visual to art majors or minors. Offered Fall, Spring. trends employed in art photography. Topics covered will include: 19th and 20th century influences, multi-cultural interpretation of ART 213 Cr.4 genres, issues of identity and the influence of digital technology on Ceramics for Non-Art Majors photography. Students will also learn about individual and collective This course will focus on learning new skills and/or refining skills cultural models utilized to form the complex visual language of in ceramics by exploring the history of ceramic form, researching photographs. Offered Fall, Spring. contemporary ceramists, and practicing hand-built, wheel thrown, and surface techniques. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight, with ART 205 Cr.4 instructor permission. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: not open to art Painting Media I majors or minors, except the art therapy minor. Offered Fall, Spring. This course provides an introduction to the techniques and materials of painting in acrylic, oil, or watermedia. Emphasis is on components ART 214 Cr.4 of painting space, color, volume, value, and scale. Various stylistic Introduction to Sculpture approaches and sources are explored through a study of historical This course is a studio-based introduction to materials, methods, and and contemporary practices in painting. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: concepts used in the creation of sculptural art and three-dimensional ART 162 or ART 262. Offered Fall, Spring. design. Students will engage in a variety of assignments and exercises designed to develop and enhance visual awareness, creative thinking, personal expression and technical refinement. In addition to creative projects and studio work, students will analyze and think critically about basic visual concepts as they apply to developments in historical and contemporary sculpture and participate in supplemental writing, group discussion, and class critiques. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Offered Fall, Spring. 2 Art (ART) - Courses

+ART 215 Cr.3 ART 223 Cr.4 Introduction to Museum Studies Introduction to Blacksmithing Museums are more popular than ever before. This course, designed for This course provides an introductory experience to a studio-based students interested in museological practices and museum careers, approach to visual art in the three-dimensional realm. Students apply will focus on art museums, but will also embrace history, anthropology, design elements and principles to projects and experiences as they archeology and public administration, to examine the institutional and occur in the physical world. Concentration will focus on expanding ethical dimensions of presenting culture in a dedicated space. It will visual vocabulary through the design and development of traditional introduce students to how museums operate, and explore critical issues and experimental blacksmithing techniques. The course will explore of power, privilege and diversity. We will look at museum missions, conceptual problem solving, introductory forging and fabrication collection practices, exhibition strategies, and audience appeal. With techniques and an investigation into the inherent qualities of ferrous that in mind, we will examine the various ideologies at play in museums materials. Hot forging, bending, cutting, welding, finishing, surface today, and the ethics of cultural representation and “ownership” of enrichment, and traditional joinery will be covered in this course. Lect. 2, cultural artifacts. Offered Fall. Studio 4. Offered Fall. ART 216 Cr.4 +ART 251 Cr.3 Introduction to Ceramics Survey of Art History This is a studio course which explores the process and materials of This course is a survey of selected art and design from diverse cultures ceramics. The course begins with hand building techniques. The end - prehistory to the present. Students explore basic art history methods of the semester focuses on throwing on the potter’s wheel. Throughout of formal, stylistic, and iconographic analysis and practice skills the course the student will experiment in clay, glazes, and surface needed to develop critical looking and thinking. Emphasis placed on the decoration. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Offered Fall, Spring. relationships between artifacts and cultures, and how the production ART 218 Cr.4 of art and design is a form of human world knowledge. Themes include Print Media I the role of the artist and designer over time, techniques and materials as This course is the first of a two-part introductory series of studio technological advancements, the social and religious context of art, how courses designed for students interested in exploring the possibilities of art history influences contemporary images and photography, and how the printed image. The course is structured around two modules, each to apply art history analysis skills to interpreting contemporary media focusing on traditional analog and contemporary digital approaches images. Offered Fall. to screen printing and relief printmaking. Students will learn about the ART 262 Cr.4 role these media had in the history of art and visual communication and Drawing II examine their range of applications existing within contemporary fine art A studio course emphasizing growth through observation, exploration practice. Class participants will be required to produce a body of work and interpretation of visual forms-including the figure. Drawing as utilizing the materials covered in class. Instruction includes tutorials, language is investigated and interpreted by exploring various styles and slide presentations, visiting artist lectures, assigned projects, readings, techniques from traditional and contemporary works. Lect. 2, Studio 4. and critiques. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 162 or ART 262. Prerequisite: ART 162. Offered Fall, Spring. Offered Fall, Spring. +ART 272 Cr.4 ART 221 Cr.4 Photography and Imaging I Introduction to Metalsmithing This studio course serves as an introduction to digital photography, This course provides the student's introductory experience to a studio- including digital camera functions, exposure techniques, digital based approach to visual art in the three-dimensional realm. Students workflow, image processing, and inkjet printing. Students learn the apply design elements and principles to projects and experiences as technical mechanics of the medium and are given hands-on projects to they occur in the physical world. Concentration will focus on expanding further their understanding of photography in aesthetic and conceptual visual vocabulary through investigations of introductory nonferrous terms. Students are encouraged to explore the possibilities of the metal fabrication and construction techniques utilized in the creation of medium, think critically about photographic works, and embrace jewelry and metal objects. The course will explore conceptual problem creative risk as they learn and refine their craft. Class time will consist solving, introductory constructions/fabrication techniques, and an of demonstrations, lectures, discussions, studio/lab sessions, and group investigation into the inherent qualities of non-ferrous materials. Cutting, critiques. To complete the assignments for this course, each student soldering, finishing, surface enrichment, cold connections, forming, must have access to an external hard drive and a digital camera with forging, and raising will be covered in this course. Lect. 2, Studio 4. manual exposure control and the ability to capture RAW files. A limited Offered Fall, Spring. number of cameras are available for rent through the UWL Photography ART 222 Cr.4 Lab. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Offered Fall, Spring. Metalsmithing for Non-Art Majors +ART 301 Cr.3 This course provides an introductory experience to a studio-based World Art approach to visual art in the three-dimensional realm. Students apply This course will be an in-depth examination of art forms in various design elements and principles to projects and experiences as they historical, social, and religious contexts of Africa, South and South occur in the physical world. Concentration will focus on expanding East Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas. Students will explore issues, visual vocabulary through investigations of introductory nonferrous approaches and controversies in cross cultural civilizations through metal fabrication and construction techniques utilized in the creation of art as a primary source of understanding. They will experience how, jewelry and metal objects. The course will explore conceptual problem through art, the values and ideas of many cultures have evolved and new solving, introductory constructions/fabrication techniques and an patterns of globalization have shaped the modern world. Prerequisite: investigation into the inherent qualities of non-ferrous materials. Cutting, junior standing. Offered Fall, Spring. soldering, finishing, surface enrichment, cold connections, forming, forging, and raising will be covered in this course. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: not open to art majors or minors. Offered Fall. Art (ART) - Courses 3

+ART 302 Cr.3 ART 314 Cr.4 Visual Language in the Global Classroom Intermediate Sculpture This course provides a discovery of the connections between visual art This is an intermediate level course designed to expand and build on and a variety of disciplines. Cultural values and the social institution previous knowledge and experiences with sculptural material, methods, of education will be examined. Through inquiry, analysis, and research, and concepts. In addition, students will be introduced to new media students will explore art as a form of perceptual, social, and cultural and more complex techniques and processes in sculpture. Greater learning. Students will develop guiding questions, rubrics, and emphasis will be placed on personal expression and creative strategies procedures for the instruction of visual art education and will consider for communicating and aligning individual skills with conceptual ideas. a model of instruction which guides and nurtures creativity and higher Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 212 or ART 214. Offered Fall, Spring. level thinking skills. Offered Fall, Spring. ART 315 Cr.3 ART 304 Cr.4 Writing About Art Color Theory This is an advanced course with a focus on research, analytical skills This course is an intensive study of color through studio practice in and writing about art. Students analyze essays by different artists, water-based media. As part of the painting course sequence, this course scholars, and critics, and will learn the practice of different forms of isolates the element of color in practice while examining its relationship art writing, including formal analysis, wall text, exhibition review, and to other elements in analysis. The student will build upon material research paper. Prerequisite: ART 251. Offered Spring. covered in ART 205 to develop a more sophisticated understanding ART 316 Cr.4 of color and other attributes of painting. Course content includes Intermediate Ceramics physiological and cultural perceptions of color, and processes of color Studio course specializing in the skill associated with the pottery wheel. mixture, opacity, and transparency. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: Emphasis upon individual research in the mixing of clay bodies and ART 205. Offered Occasionally. simple experiments in glaze research. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 305 Cr.4 ART 162; ART 213 or ART 216. Offered Fall, Spring. Painting Media II ART 318 Cr.4 This intermediate level painting course expands upon the concepts Print Media II introduced in ART 205 with an emphasis on creative development This course is the second of a two-part introductory series of studio within the discipline. Students develop unique visual language, creative courses designed for students interested in exploring the printed expression, and conceptual understanding through active participation image's possibilities. The course is structured around two modules, each in painting, studio practice, and critiques. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: focusing on traditional analog and contemporary digital approaches ART 205. Offered Fall, Spring. to lithography and intaglio printmaking. Students will learn about the ART 306 Cr.4 role these media had in the history of art and visual communication Drawing and Painting Media and examine their range of applications existing within contemporary This course explores a variety of media and techniques and provides fine art practice. Class participants will be required to produce a body an expanded experience with drawing and painting. Students will be of work utilizing the materials covered in class. Instruction includes encouraged to work thematically as they build a portfolio with breadth tutorials, slide presentations, visiting artist lectures, assigned projects, in media and depth of expression. Studio practice emphasizes the readings, and critiques. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 218. Offered hybridization of personal expression and the relationship between scale, Fall, Spring. media, and image; such issues will be examined in a variety of formats ART 320 Cr.4 and techniques. Studio work will focus on experimentation beyond Intermediate Metalsmithing: Forging and Raising traditional drawing practice. Sources and examples by artists from the This studio course will focus on the design and development of past--as well as the present--will be used to direct the students in this traditional and experimental hollowware and metalsmithing techniques. class toward inventive solutions for the assigned projects. The materials It will introduce students to hand and machine practices relative to the emphasized in this course include pen, ink, graphite, collage, acrylic, oil raising and forming processes of metalwork. The course will explore stick, and digital imaging. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 162 or one conceptual problem solving, sheet metal forming methods, inherent 200-level studio course. Offered Fall, Spring. qualities of non-ferrous materials, and a continuation of applying ART 308 Cr.4 design elements and principles to projects and experiences. Synclastic Intermediate Digital Art and Design and anticlastic raising, non-ferrous metal forging and forming, and This course is an intermediate studio designed to investigate the hydraulic press forming will be covered in this course. Lect. 2, Studio 4. concepts and practices of digital media as a basis for art production and Prerequisite: ART 221 or ART 222. Offered Spring. making contributions to the field of visual culture. Observation, material ART 321 Cr.4 manipulation, time/space consideration, and technical reconsideration Intermediate Metalsmithing are skills that will be specifically developed throughout the course. This studio course will focus on the design and development of Students in this course will create a diverse array of digital artworks, nonferrous casting techniques utilized in the creation of jewelry and spanning digital imaging and compositing, sound design, video art, metal objects. It will introduce students to hand and machine practices motion graphics, and fine art engagement with the web. As with all fine relative to the solidification processes of metalwork. The course will arts studio courses, conceptual creative approach and development is explore conceptual problem solving, gravity and centrifugal casting prioritized. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 206 or ART 207. Offered methods, inherent qualities of non-ferrous materials, and a continuation Fall, Spring. of applying design elements and principles to projects and experiences. Lost-wax casting, soldering, finishing, and faceted stone-setting will be covered in this course. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 221 or ART 222. Offered Fall, Spring. 4 Art (ART) - Courses

ART 323 Cr.4 ART 361 Cr.3 Intermediate Blacksmithing Field Experience in Art Education I This intermediate studio course will focus on the design and This course is designed to equip teacher candidates with a theoretical development of traditional and experimental blacksmithing techniques. and practical foundation for visual art instruction. Through an It will provide a hands-on opportunity for students to expand creative integrated field experience, candidates will reflect on and engage in and technical skills related to hot-forged metal objects. This course curriculum planning and instruction as it applies to visual literacy, builds on the technical foundation learned in ART 223, while challenging the WI Core Standards for Art, the WI InTASC Teaching Standards, students to embrace non-traditional techniques and increase the scale and WI DPI licensure requirements. A consistent schedule in the K-12 of their metal object. This course will explore the inherent qualities of field placement will be established and maintained. Students will be ferrous materials, and a continuation of applying design elements and expected to observe and reflect on the learning environment, classroom principles to projects and experiences. Repeatable for credit – maximum management approaches, learning differences, adaptations, visual eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 223. Offered Fall. supports, and studio procedures while also engaging in practical ART 331 Cr.3 aspects of instruction (as determined by their university supervisor and Art of the United States cooperating teacher). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ART 401 or This course presents a study of the visual arts of the United States from ART 403; admission to teacher education. Consent of instructor. Offered its formation through the birth of the industrialized and modernized Fall, Spring. nation in the 20th century. Throughout the semester we will examine in ART 362 Cr.4 particular how the political and social anxieties and ideals of democracy Drawing III and national identity were negotiated and represented by artists. This is a studio course emphasizing growth in observation and Focusing on the varied images of American society created by artists interpretation of complex visual forms. Students gain greater of diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, the class will consider understanding in drawing as language through exploration of the broad themes of the impact of national expansion and colonization, various styles and techniques in both traditional and contemporary immigration, urbanization, and modernization. Prerequisite: ART 251. drawings. Utilizing the expertise and experience gained in both Offered Fall. ’Drawing Foundations,’ ART 162, and ’Drawing II,’ ART 262, students will +ART 332 Cr.3 experiment through thematic exploration to develop a visual vocabulary Themes of Contemporary Art in drawing, with life drawing as a major component. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Have you ever seen an artwork and thought to yourself, “A four-year- Prerequisite: ART 262. Offered Fall, Spring. old could do that?” This class introduces the contemporary art world ART 372 Cr.4 and considers how artists of the past thirty years have challenged our Photography and Imaging II understanding of what art is and can be. We will explore the rise of This intermediate photography course explores techniques of digital postmodernism and new forms of art making, the intersection of art and capture, photographic editing software, image compositing, large-scale social movements, issues of identity and representation, censorship, the digital printing, and studio lighting. Students produce creative projects art market, and how contemporary artists are engaging with some of the and investigate the work of a wide range of digital photographers most important issues of our day. Prerequisite: junior standing. Offered and related artists. Class time consists of demonstrations, lectures, Spring. discussions, studio sessions, and group critiques. To complete the ART 341 Cr.3 assignments for this course, each student must have access to an Selected Topics in Art History external hard drive and a digital camera with manual exposure control This course is an intensive review of significant movements and styles and the ability to capture RAW files. A limited number of cameras are in the history of art. The particular subject of the course will be chosen available for rent through the UWL Photography Lab. Lect. 2, Studio 4. each year by the art faculty. This course is intended to provide an Prerequisite: ART 272. Offered Fall, Spring. exposure to key topics in greater depth than allowed in the art history ART 373 Cr.4 survey courses. Repeatable for credit - maximum six. Prerequisite: Documentary Strategies in Photography ART 251. Offered Spring. This course introduces students to various strategies in documentary ART/PSY 350 Cr.3 photography. It entails an examination of the photographic document The Practice of Art Therapy as it functions as evidence, a catalyst to social reform, and a cultural As the theoretical orientation course in the art therapy minor, the representation of reality. Coursework explores the objectivity of the class addresses current issues in the field of art therapy. Taking a social document and new documentary approaches in a fine art context. multidisciplinary approach, students will explore art therapy theories, art Class time includes demonstrations, lectures, discussions, studio therapy assessments, and the historical use of art therapy materials and sessions, and group critiques. To complete the assignments for this media. Prerequisite: PSY 204 or PSY 212. (Cross-listed with ART/PSY; course, each student must have access to an external hard drive, and a may only earn credit in one department.) Consent of department. Offered digital camera with manual exposure control and the ability to capture Occasionally. RAW files. A limited number of cameras are available for rent through the UWL Photography Lab. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 372. ART 360 Cr.1-3 Offered Spring - Odd Numbered Years. Travel/Study in Visual Art Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the nation and world ART 375 Cr.4 and may be led by one or more faculty members. Course work may Special Projects in Photography include studio/professional practice, research, or seminar topics. Prior This intermediate studio course encourages the development of trip arrangements, financial deposit, and consent/orientation with independent, long-term student projects and portfolio-building. International Education (if applicable) are required. May be repeated to Coursework includes group and individual critique, studio work, different locations. Repeatable for credit - maximum six. Prerequisite: discussions, readings, writing, and technical demonstrations. sophomore standing. Consent of instructor. Offered Occasionally. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 272. Consent of instructor. Offered Occasionally. Art (ART) - Courses 5

ART 376 Cr.4 ART 405 Cr.4 Portraiture in Photography Expanded Practices in Painting Media This intermediate studio course explores photographic portraiture. This course provides an opportunity for further development of visual Studio projects examine various strategies of creating portraits, language through the medium of paint in an individualized studio photographic techniques, lighting, and the history of portraiture in art. environment. The course involves a dedication to ongoing creative work Coursework includes hand-on studio projects, group critiques, readings, and an increased awareness of contemporary painting discourses. discussions, lecture, and demonstrations. To complete the assignments Students focus on issues of content and expression through individual for this course, each student must have access to an external hard projects and research. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, drive, and a digital camera with manual exposure control and the ability Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 305 or ART 306. Offered Fall, Spring. to capture RAW files. A limited number of cameras are available for ART 408 Cr.4 rent through the UWL Photography Lab. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: Advanced Digital Art and Design ART 372. Offered Fall - Odd Numbered Years. This course is an advanced studio for students interested in developing ART 378 Cr.4 more experimental projects using digital media. Students will Advanced Digital Photography and Imaging complement historic and theoretical readings with their own research This class uses photographic software to explore the conceptual and and will develop a larger independent project along their own areas of practical fundamentals of photography in the digital era. Studio projects interest. Emphasis is on critical thinking, reflexive creative practice, explore creative possibilities of composited photographs and the and synthesis of research, production, and presentation. Students impact of digital technology on contemporary photographic practice. will work with an independent focus in the latter half of the semester The coursework comprises hands-on studio time, lectures, readings, building a substantive portfolio piece. As with all fine arts studio discussion, technical demonstrations, and group critiques. To complete courses, conceptual creative approach and development is prioritized. the assignments for this course, each student must have access to an Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: external hard drive and a digital camera with manual exposure control ART 308. Offered Fall, Spring. and the ability to capture RAW files. A limited number of cameras are ART 413 Cr.1-4 available for rent through the UWL Photography Lab. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Independent Study Prerequisite: ART 372. Offered Spring - Even Numbered Years. Concentrated study in any area: art history, art metal, ceramics, design, ART 401 Cr.3 drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Open to advanced Methods in Art Education I: Foundational Practices students who have excellent records in selected areas. Repeatable for This course is one of two required offerings for art education majors credit - maximum eight for majors, maximum of four for non-majors who plan to teach visual art and design in the K-12 classroom. or minors. Prerequisite: junior standing. Consent of instructor. Offered Practical, theoretical, and philosophical aspects of teaching art will Occasionally. be emphasized in relation to literacy-building, visual culture, skill and ART 414 Cr.4 concept development, classroom management, foundational disciplines, Advanced Sculpture and studio procedures. Foundational practices and theories of art The course introduces students to advanced sculpture materials and education will be regarded and evaluated such as discipline-based art techniques. Students are challenged to develop individual direction, education, thematic teaching and learning, the connections between application of advanced techniques, and experimentation beyond art and culture, adaptive art, and the elements and principles of art and traditional sculpture. This course requires individual commitment design. Students will incorporate WI Act 31, the Wisconsin Core Arts to conceptual development, research, and increased awareness of Standards and Wisconsin InTASC Standards in the development of contemporary sculptural discourse. Students will focus on creating their unit and lesson plans, curriculum, and assessments while being a body of sculptural work that highlights technical ability and artistic in accordance with licensure standards for teaching and learning for vision. Emphasis is on documentation, presentation, and career elementary (K-5) and secondary levels (grades 6-12). Prerequisite: development. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. concurrent enrollment in ART 361 or ART 461; admission to teacher Prerequisite: ART 314. Offered Fall, Spring. education; declared art education major. Consent of instructor. Offered Spring. ART 415 Cr.3 Art Seminar ART 403 Cr.3 Professional problems related to principles of art, art history, and art Methods in Art Education II: Contemporary Practices education research. Consent of instructor. Offered Occasionally. This course is one of two required offerings for art education majors who plan to teach visual art and design in the K-12 classroom. Practical, ART 416 Cr.4 theoretical, and philosophical aspects of teaching art will be emphasized Advanced Ceramics in relation to curricular design, cultural competence, visual thinking, This is a studio course with emphasis placed on advanced production creativity and problem-solving, critique, studio habits, and creating techniques including mixed construction methods in pottery. A student’s community through classroom management strategies. Contemporary knowledge of clay and glaze composition and kiln design and firing is pedagogies of art education will be regarded and evaluated such as furthered by an organized approach to technical research. Repeatable choice-based art education, culturally relevant teaching and learning, for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 251; equity and inclusion, art as social justice, adaptive art in special ART 316. Offered Fall, Spring. education, digital art/media, and interdisciplinary models. Students will incorporate WI Act 31, the Wisconsin Core Art & Design Standards, and Wisconsin InTASC Teaching Standards in the development of curriculum while being in accordance with WI DPI licensure requirements for visual arts at the elementary (K-5) and secondary levels (grades 6-12). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ART 361 or ART 461; admission to teacher education. Offered Fall. 6 Art (ART) - Courses

ART 418 Cr.4 ART 461 Cr.3 Expanded Practices in Print Media Field Experience in Art Education II For many contemporary artists, the techniques of print media are This course is designed to build on prior field experience to equip naturally part of their larger pallet of art practice, but the end results are teacher candidates with a conceptual framework, pedagogy, and not categorized as prints or made with a desire to engage in a larger practicum for teaching visual art. Through an integrated field conversation about traditional printmaking. This advanced studio art experience, candidates will engage in curriculum design, instruction, and course will focus on the contemporary state of fine art print media and assessment as it applies to the WI Core Standards for Art, the WI InTASC explore innovative and experimental approaches to print that expand Teaching Standards, WI DPI licensure requirements, and their future the notions and practice of the traditional medium. Throughout the career. A multi-day, consistent schedule in the K-12 field experience semester, students will be introduced to experimental printmaking placement classroom will be established and maintained. Students will techniques and alternative approaches to print that seek to blur the be expected to engage in classroom instruction while practicing conflict- boundaries between printmaking, photography, drawing, and installation. resolution, management strategies, building relationships, collaborating, The course will focus on both individual and group projects that explore and maintaining inclusive approaches to teaching and learning (as ways in which the studio and printing process can be used as a means determined by their university supervisor and cooperating teacher). of dissemination, collaboration, and social engagement. Repeatable Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ART 401 or ART 403; admission to for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 218 or teacher education. Consent of instructor. Offered Fall, Spring. ART 318. Consent of instructor. Offered Fall, Spring. ART 462 Cr.4 ART 419 Cr.4 Advanced Drawing Advanced Print Media Workshop This studio course emphasizes thematic and conceptual growth in This course is a self-directed studio art course for senior-level students drawing with self-directed and mentored projects. Students explore, who wish to further develop their technical knowledge and conceptual examine and develop a concept in drawing by analyzing and integrating understanding of contemporary print media while beginning to focus contemporary drawings practices. Utilizing the expertise and experience on their professional careers after graduation. The course will explore a gained in studio media, students will experiment in alternative drawing variety of advanced printing techniques, which will largely be determined media to seek connections among various studio practices including by the class’ interests and the discretion of the instructor. Students installation and performance. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. will be expected to set personal goals and generate a body of self- Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 362. Offered Annually. initiated creative research projects informed by discussions with course ART 475 Cr.1-4 faculty, assigned readings, and group discussions and critiques. This Perspectives in Art: Photography course will be equally focused on helping students maintain a creative This course allows students to further explore photography on artistic practice after graduating. It will also cover professional topics, campus or in an international environment. This course promotes including print framing and exhibition proposals, print conferences, artist intensive research/creative endeavor, independent project design, and residencies/networks, and ways to build a printmaking studio at home. development of long-term projects. Repeatable for credit - maximum Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Prerequisite: eight. Prerequisite: ART 372. Consent of instructor. Offered Occasionally. ART 318. Consent of instructor. Offered Fall, Spring. ART 476 Cr.4 ART 421 Cr.4 Experimental Photography and Imaging Advanced Metalsmithing This course encourages advanced students to experiment with image This studio course will focus on advanced techniques utilized in the making techniques. These include image-capture, traditional darkroom creation of jewelry and metal objects. Areas of focus include sheet methods, non-narrative sequencing, non-silver processes, surface metal manipulation to create dimension or depth through forming manipulation, the photograph as a sculptural object, photo-collage, and surface enrichment. The course will explore conceptual problem and many other possibilities beyond the conventional representational solving, creating relief through hand and machine practices, the inherent photograph. The ’camera’ itself is reexamined by exploring the camera qualities of non-ferrous materials, and a continuation of applying obscura, pinhole photography, cell phones, the scanner and video as design elements and principles to projects and experiences. Individual legitimate tools for creating photographic works. Lectures and films will research, chasing, hydraulic press forming, and pattern development are acquaint students with the history of experimental photography. Lect. 2, emphasized. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Lect. 2, Studio 4. Studio 4. Prerequisite: ART 372. Offered Fall - Even Numbered Years. Prerequisite: ART 321. Offered Fall, Spring. ART 498 Cr.3 ART 425 Cr.1-4 Professional Practices and Exhibition Perspectives in Art This capstone course is intended to assist students in the final stages In this course, students explore a specific art media on campus or in the of their education and help in the establishment of career goals beyond international environment. The course will stress intensive individual the college experience. Further the course will expose students to the research and/or creative endeavor. Repeatable for credit - maximum theory and practice of the exhibition and presentation of artwork. This eight. Prerequisite: ART 162; completion of intro-advanced sequence in a course will prepare students for the senior exhibition by fostering an studio media. Consent of instructor. Offered Fall, Spring. understanding of professional presentation and an appreciation of the ART 450 Cr.1-3 methodologies of presentation. Prerequisite: art major; senior standing. Internship in Art Consent of department. Offered Fall, Spring. An academic or experientially relevant course in the creative arts, art education, art history and museology. Repeatable for credit - maximum 15. No more than six credits may be applied toward a major in the art department. Prerequisite: at least a 2.50 overall GPA and a 2.75 GPA in art; at least 22 hours in art including specific course work where applicable; junior standing. Pass/Fail grading. Offered Occasionally.